About the Authors

Katsuya Yamazoe

Contributed equally to this work with: Katsuya Yamazoe, Satoru Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Satoru Yoshida

Contributed equally to this work with: Katsuya Yamazoe, Satoru Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Miyuki Yasuda

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Shin Hatou

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Emi Inagaki

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yoko Ogawa

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuo Tsubota

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Shigeto Shimmura

shige@z8.keio.jp

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SY EI SS. Performed the experiments: KY SY SH MY EI YO. Analyzed the data: SY KT SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH. Wrote the paper: KY SY KT SS.